Poetry

Of nineteen thirty-four

The motor car is always a thing of darkness, In the sun and lighted roads of day And in the luminous gas at night though 
31 July 2023, 14:55 PM

Windless hair

I frolic and burrow myself inside the vastness of the fields And the prairies that stand tall Of spaces heavily concentrated, and then stretched out to infinity
29 July 2023, 12:55 PM

Ode to an ariel dancer

Clouds in heaven bow and billow around your feet, and you- glide through, oblivious to their ethereal presence.
21 July 2023, 18:00 PM

Women’s revolution

The theocracy is crumbling in its seat
21 July 2023, 18:00 PM

Lamp of grief

Nothing is meaningless if speech and silence  fill void, flowing in the same force, and no one blocks the road to dreaming.
20 July 2023, 13:07 PM

My van my grief

I tried to be renamed in the middle  But my van and I have never been apart!
19 July 2023, 12:55 PM

Cosmopolitan Dream

I see you, with whatever half awake, sleep drifting irises, I see you. Dusted in the shelves of unread books, I see you and I know you, They will never know you but I do, in ways you are afraid.
17 July 2023, 13:00 PM

for my weeping mother

her heart was a two seater unfit for a family so big i grew to be a woman mirrored in her shadow when she was younger
7 July 2023, 18:00 PM

Cog against the machine

you spend what you make to make what you spend, and you do it today to do it all over again
7 July 2023, 18:00 PM

Shamim Reza creates new frontiers with his new poetry collection

Over the last 30 years, he has received multiple national and international literary awards for his work. He is, currently, the vice-president of PEN International, Bangladesh chapter. 
6 July 2023, 06:13 AM

Memory

Memory is a winding range Of coniferous mountain pine Catching the fiery light
23 June 2023, 18:00 PM

Dark, blue night

Like wild leopard's skin, I spread out my hair The dark night uncurls with his roaring fleet; I pounce on his chest, bare foot, like Kali–
23 June 2023, 18:00 PM

On rainy days and reading

The fact of the matter was this: the poem had been written, the call had been answered, and as lofty as it sounds—at that moment there I was, as Frank O'Hara put aptly—"the center of all beauty! / writing these poems!/ Imagine!".
23 June 2023, 18:00 PM

Concrete sorrow

We grasp on and we hold tight.
22 June 2023, 10:23 AM

Baba

try my best to paint the place blue Pouring all the sorrow after you With no colour left in my palette, As though the canvas breathes its last
18 June 2023, 13:30 PM

Heathen 

Spirit breaks at home along with love mingled with innocence.
16 June 2023, 18:00 PM

Droplets of eternity

Dissipated, my thoughts wander finally taking refuge in sleep.
8 June 2023, 10:10 AM

I am found in fields

I am a god when I am asleep, I am found to be inside the shimmer of water as it fights against the brilliance of the screams that emanate from the sky
2 June 2023, 18:00 PM

PTSD

Martyrs and-slash-or heroes they call us Is it worth all the fuss? While they celebrate We ache to recuperate
2 June 2023, 18:00 PM

The rebels of Madhusudan

Neeldhaja is the first Bangla poem to be written in the form of a letter; it places a female figure with a rebellious demeanor as the protagonist of a historical narrative.
2 June 2023, 13:00 PM